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Dorsey defends decision to fact check Trump tweet: 'More transparency from us is critical'
The Hill ^ | 05 27 2020 | Rebecca Klar

Posted on 05/27/2020 9:17:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his platform’s decision to fact check and place warnings on two of President Trump’s tweets this week, further emphasizing the difference between Twitter and Facebook's policies on misinformation.

“Fact check: there is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that’s me,” Dorsey tweeted. “Please leave our employees out of this. We’ll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally. And we will admit to and own any mistakes we make.”

He also said that the decision to place the warnings doesn’t make the platform an“arbiter of truth,” directly quoting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who used the same phrasing earlier Wednesday while defending his decision not to label misinformation shared by politicians on his social media platform.

“This does not make us an ‘arbiter of truth.’ Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves. More transparency from us is critical so folks can clearly see the why behind our actions,” Dorsey said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: factcheck; freespeech; homofascism; internet; jackdorsey; technotyranny; trump; twitter
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1 posted on 05/27/2020 9:17:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Keep stepping in it Dorsey. Karma is coming.


2 posted on 05/27/2020 9:20:43 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: yesthatjallen

Please leave our employees out of this.
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Especially the left wing nut we chose as speech monitor.


3 posted on 05/27/2020 9:22:56 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: yesthatjallen

I hope more conservatives move over to Parlor ir is a GREAT site not the cesspool of twitter, Laura and Eric Trump started posting at the site today, Dan Bongino is there, Katrina Pearson is there I LOVE THIS SITE!! Format is a dream!!


4 posted on 05/27/2020 9:23:22 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: yesthatjallen

FU Dorcey.


5 posted on 05/27/2020 9:23:29 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: yesthatjallen

That ain’t “transparency” that’s spin.


6 posted on 05/27/2020 9:26:00 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“More transparency from us is critical so folks can clearly see the why behind our actions”

So we know who the “fact checkers” are and their political affiliations?


7 posted on 05/27/2020 9:26:51 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I still don’t get why Katrina Pierson is not actively with the Trump Team today. She was an excellent spokeswoman, at times almost like a half-black Kellyanne Conway.
That is meant as a high compliment.
But both Katrina and the president are highly opinionated, highly energetic people. Maybe he wasn’t offering her what she wanted.


8 posted on 05/27/2020 9:27:31 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: yesthatjallen

Look Twitt to ban PDJT Sep or Oct .


9 posted on 05/27/2020 9:27:33 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

He doesn’t like his fact checker being doxxed.


10 posted on 05/27/2020 9:33:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

You wanna regulate and manipulate? then get ready for regulations on your company dorsey- remember- you brought it on yourself-


11 posted on 05/27/2020 9:35:05 PM PDT by Bob434
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Well, you did a lousy job FACT CHECKING IT, DORSEY.

Better check your “facts” again.


12 posted on 05/27/2020 9:36:26 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: MileHi

Exactly- deceitful biased spin- what they posted was a lie, and they owe the President an apology- There has been many cases of documented mail in vote fraud- what twitter said was a blatant lie about our President- and frankly, he should sue them for libel or whatever- slander perhaps? it certainly wasn’t the truth they said in their effort to smear him during an election year-


13 posted on 05/27/2020 9:37:24 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Maris Crane

We know, from 0bama’s example, that transparency for libs means the EXACT OPPOSITE. For libs....it means obscuring, vagueness, concealing, etc.


14 posted on 05/27/2020 9:39:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
I hope more conservatives move over to Parlor ir is a GREAT site

It will quickly be populated by leftist agent provocateurs pretending to be Nazis, holocaust deniers, white supremacists, xenophobes, homophomes, and various haters.

The MSM will report that it's a cesspool of racist hate.

That's how the left destroys free speech sites.

15 posted on 05/27/2020 9:39:33 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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The Hill is such trash.

The obvious Question is why aren’t they fact checking Biden and his campaign?


16 posted on 05/27/2020 9:49:01 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: yesthatjallen

Did Jack Dorky fact-check Ice Cube for circulating a fake photo of the Minnesota cop wearing a fake “Make America White Again” hat, to millions of Twatters?


17 posted on 05/27/2020 9:51:02 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: yesthatjallen

The idiot doesn’t think people can figure out things on their own.


18 posted on 05/27/2020 9:57:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: yesthatjallen

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/05/27/ice-cube-spreads-fake-photo-of-cop-blamed-for-floyd-georges-death-twitter-does-nothing/


19 posted on 05/27/2020 9:57:56 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: yesthatjallen

The definition of Douche- Dorsey


20 posted on 05/27/2020 10:31:28 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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